The recentl released AMD Phenom series may be in line to take over for a short, time will tell.

When specifying a hard drive for music work in a desktop, try to avoid 5400 rpm and small cache size.


for good value plus good performance, you could specify the 7200rpm drive, with at least a 16mb cache. As for the cache size, more is always better. You will notice that the cache size typically ramps up on the higher caoacity disks, some go as high as 32MB. That's a good thing when streaming audio.


--Mac